To contextualize, for the vast majority of human existence we live in the jungle like animals. And coincidentally the same number do still today as there were at the dawn of agriculture. Of course agricultural brought with it an acceleration of population increase, and religion for that matter.
The majority of words do not refer to things, in the sense of specific physical objects, however meaning and its definitions is a broadly studied topic both specifically within the concept of language and otherwise. However in hunter-gatherer societies we do see fewer words and the language generally is more like direct symbols for what is physically observable in a very non-abstract way.
Morality is many things, but are meant to be a set of ethics that when applied to behavior produce the best results for the individual, community, and world. In academic situations the words 'ethics' and 'morality' have more specific definitions and this summation isn't entirely accurate. Also with industrialization, globalization, and concepts like civil rights, secular as well as religious interpretations of morality have changed or at least had new connotations.
The issue I find with morality is when people start to carry a weight of significance on their actions that I believe is exaggerated. Not so much in the sense of a person believing they are changing the world in any significant way when they are not, although this does have its problems. But when violence is allowed because the victim has acted immorally, and are seen as doing more wrong than the amount they did, if any.
If you are serious about these questions, I'd suggest reading up on morality, ethics, and semantics. As well as ontology and speculative realism. Also anarcho-primitivism and of course agnosticism and secular books on religion.
I come from a religious background as well, but have distanced myself from it enough that all the question you've asked here are ones that exist within a secular understanding of the world and have nothing to do necessarily with disproving god or religion. Also depending on your faith these are all also deeply religious questions.
But yeah, dont go mad, read lol, or atleast know people have asked these things for hundreds of years, you don't need to re-invent the wheel to explore these topics
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To contextualize, for the vast majority of human existence we live in the jungle like animals. And coincidentally the same number do still today as there were at the dawn of agriculture. Of course agricultural brought with it an acceleration of population increase, and religion for that matter.
The majority of words do not refer to things, in the sense of specific physical objects, however meaning and its definitions is a broadly studied topic both specifically within the concept of language and otherwise. However in hunter-gatherer societies we do see fewer words and the language generally is more like direct symbols for what is physically observable in a very non-abstract way.
Morality is many things, but are meant to be a set of ethics that when applied to behavior produce the best results for the individual, community, and world. In academic situations the words 'ethics' and 'morality' have more specific definitions and this summation isn't entirely accurate. Also with industrialization, globalization, and concepts like civil rights, secular as well as religious interpretations of morality have changed or at least had new connotations.
The issue I find with morality is when people start to carry a weight of significance on their actions that I believe is exaggerated. Not so much in the sense of a person believing they are changing the world in any significant way when they are not, although this does have its problems. But when violence is allowed because the victim has acted immorally, and are seen as doing more wrong than the amount they did, if any.
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If you are serious about these questions, I'd suggest reading up on morality, ethics, and semantics. As well as ontology and speculative realism. Also anarcho-primitivism and of course agnosticism and secular books on religion.
I come from a religious background as well, but have distanced myself from it enough that all the question you've asked here are ones that exist within a secular understanding of the world and have nothing to do necessarily with disproving god or religion. Also depending on your faith these are all also deeply religious questions.
But yeah, dont go mad, read lol, or atleast know people have asked these things for hundreds of years, you don't need to re-invent the wheel to explore these topics